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LEARNING FORUMS
JOVENES FRONTERIZOS - YOUTH THEMATIC MEETING
November 16 and 17, 2006 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
Click on links in the agend below to access session specific materials. For additional meeting information see:
MEETING OBJECTIVES:
- To provide participants with an understanding of the broad continuum of community foundation youth engagement activities
- To provide participants with concrete “take-homes” – practical suggestions and time for action planning for youth engagement activities that can fit a range of community foundation organizational, cultural and institutional contexts.
AGENDA:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
10:00am
Press Conference
11:45am
Orientation Lunch for Youth
12:00-1:00pm
Orientation Lunch for Adults
1:00 - 2:30pm Welcome and Opening Keynote Address
Jorge Contreras, Chair of Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera
Norte and Ann Tartre, Director of the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy
Partnership welcomed participants
Karen Yarza, Executive Director of Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte introduced Barbara Oates from Community Foundations of Canada and Laura Beavers for KIDS COUNT
WHY YOUTH? Honored Keynote Speaker Barbara Oates, National Consultant on Youth Philanthropy, Community Foundations of Canada will answer the question: “Why invest in youth?” Barbara will help participants examine the advantages and challenges community foundations face when investing in youth. Barbara will also encourage meeting participants to start thinking about existing youth investment models from around the globe, and what can be learned from these. Click here for notes and presentation
WHY BORDER YOUTH? Laura Beavers, KIDS COUNT, Annie E. Casey Foundation, will provide perspective on the status of border youth from data compiled by KIDS COUNT from both Mexican and US border communities.
2:45-3:45pm
Learning from Action: Proven Border Community Foundation Best Practices
for Investing in Youth
Enrique Suarez, board member of Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera
Norte and Veronica Salcido-Harding, New Mexico Community Foundation shared
with border colleagues community foundation success stories and lessons
learned in supporting, engaging and investing in youth.
4:00-5:30pm
Tools and Best Practice – Simultaneous Break out sessions
Raising Permanent Funds for Youth Engagement with Barbara Oates: A sneak preview of stories from around the world that Community Foundations of Canada has been collecting on development efforts related to youth work. The session was results-oriented, and included successful stories from our own border community foundations.
What Border Community Foundation Board and Staff Need to Know about Working with and Mentoring Youth: Co-lead by Fred Gomez of Santa Cruz Community Foundation, and Teresa Almada, a youth expert from Ciudad Juarez who works with FCFN, this session provided concrete tips on effective practices for engaging youth in your community foundation.
What Border Youth Seek from their Border Community Foundation Partners: A “youth only” peer learning and focus group, answering the question, “ What kind of support do border youth need from their local community foundations to be more involved in community issues that affect youth?” Interactive session with a group of bi-national youth participants and Irene Oliver, board member of New Mexico Community Foundation.
Focusing on Youth Assets: How Community Foundations Can Measure the Success of Their Work to Engage Youth.
Derek Petersen, founder of the Institute for Community and Adolescent Resilience, leads a session based on the Search Institute’s framework of 40 developmental assets for youth. The interactive session demonstrated how youth engagement and youth philanthropy work results in improving a number of these assets, which reflect positive experiences, relationships, opportunities, and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible citizens.
5:40-6:00pm
End of Day Reflection and Wrap Up
6:00-8:00pm Dinner and Bowling Party!
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2006
9:00-11:30am
Interactive Planning Session; Commitment to Youth in Your Community!
What is your community foundation’s vision around youth? What
steps will you take? What resources do you need? Participants worked
in pairs and then in small groups to identify next steps for youth engagement
within their communities and received feedback from their peers in
a “Real Time Consulting” session. Small groups were facilitated
by Youth Advisory Committee members.
12:30-1:30pm
Site Visits: Optional 2 sites - Come and see the projects our youth
have achieved in Cd. Juarez
2:00-2:45pm Debrief of Site Visit, Review of Meeting Accomplishments
and Final Reflections
UNTIL NEXT TIME!